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Castle - tower house

Castletown, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Castletown, County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Castletown
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Castletown Castle
Coordinates
52.79162, -6.88027
SMR number
CW007-050----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007

Late eighteenth-century house with Gothic revival features incorporates remains of tower house of rectangular plan. Original tower house at N end is recognisable at ground level by massive walls (T 1.5m), stone-flagged floor, and part of loop in E wall and mural stair. Large fireplace and entrance in N wall are probably of eighteenth-century date. No indications of barrel vaulting. Some indications of a loop embrasure or possibly cupboard on first floor but little evidence that tower house survives above ground-floor level. (Carloviana 1956, 14-15)

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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